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The Personal Diary of a Un Consultant THE PERSONAL DIARY OF A UN CONSULTANT September 3-30, 1978 My friends Zaki Azam and Mohammad Ahmad of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) of Manila, having read my "travelogue" of the overland journey from London to Peshawar (Pakistan) last year, urged me to keep a diary while in Japan. My permanent host at Manila, Mr. Rasheed Khan, executive director, ADB also lent his support to the idea. However, I did not give the suggestion even a second thought knowing fully well that there would be very few interested in my meaningless prattle, till after three weeks of stay in Nagoya - the headquarters of the united nations centre for regional development (UNCRD) and my place of work for the next few months, the idea to follow the footsteps of my mentor in rural development, Dr. Akhter Hameed Khan, who had also kept a diary (later published) during one of his stays in the States also crossed my mind. After this "apologia" and putting all the blame on Zaki and Mohammad Ahmad, being the prime movers for the effort, I must admit that I was scared out of my wits by almost everyone about the high cost of living, the total lack of communication because of the language difficulty, the weird food (raw fish and what not) that the Japanese eat and a hundred other things discouraging and bewildering. However the one silver lining was that some people did concede that the Japanese, on the whole, were a friendly people. I was, therefore, pleasantly surprised to have felt absolutely at home from the moment I landed at Narita from Manila by the Philippines airlines DC-8. The customs clearance took no time. There were forms available in English. The encashment of dollars in yens was equally smooth. At the immigration only, I felt that the officer was a little flustered. Later, I came to learn from the administrative officer UNCRD, Mr. Kawashima, when he saw my passport, that on my visa "good for multiple visits" the officer had by mistake stamped "used" and then written alongside in Japanese that the "used stamp" had been put by mistake and the visa was valid for multiple visits during the full duration of my mission in Japan. One is not allowed to take the luggage trolley out of the customs area which means either you carry the luggage yourself or hire a porter - the charge for each piece is 200 yens. As I had to take the onward flight to Nagoya, I hired a porter and headed for the domestic terminal, which was in fact in the same building. However at the check-in counter, I was told that the flight by which I was booked by my travel agent (the American Express) in Islamabad, did not fly from Narita but from the other Tokyo airport called Hanneda. 1 Luckily there was a flight from Narita also for Nagoya a couple of hours before my flight and to my good fortune a seat was available on that flight. It was now one o'clock local time and the flight was not due till five in the afternoon, nearly four hours afterwards. The luggage could only be checked in 90 minutes before the flight time. However, I was informed that the luggage could be stored at the left luggage counter, which also was in the same building. The charges for storing luggage is 300 yens per piece. After knowing the charges, I took back my briefcase which I had also thought of depositing. Since I wanted to ring up Ashraf Kazi, counsellor at the Pakistan embassy, who had also recently been posted to Japan, I headed for the telephones. It caused me some consternation to find the telephone directories in Japanese only. However, I found a Japanese girl using the phone and on my request, she tried to find the number of the Pakistan embassy in the directory, but with no success. As it was written on the telephone booth in English that enquiries can be made from the operator at no. 104, I suggested to the girl to ask the operator and offered her some coins to do so. She did not take the coins and put 3 ten-yen pieces in the phone-slot and dialed the enquiry. On putting back the receiver, after making the enquiry, the three coin pieces came out in the container tray of the instrument. So the sum total of my experience was that you don't have to pay for enquiries but to activate the instrument you have to put the coin pieces first in the slot. I thanked the girl, for she spent good ten minutes in the process and rang up the embassy. A taped message informed me that the embassy was closed (it was a Sunday) and that in case of urgency, I could ring up a certain number. I dialed that number and the gentleman informed me that Ashraf had arrived but was putting up in a hotel and since the embassy would remain closed for the next four days owing to the festival of Eid, I should try again after that period. This was all rather heartening. So far I had not encountered any insurmountable difficulty despite some difficult situation like the change of flight to Nagoya from Narita, getting Pakistan embassy's telephone number. On the food front, I found an excellent hamburger and a hot cup of tea for no more than 500 yen ($ 2.50). The airport atmosphere did not give any indication that this was the scene of a pitched battle which made world headlines only a couple of months ago. Of course, the security arrangements were in full force and each ingress to the airport was well guarded. Narita is a beautiful airport equipped with all modern facilities, shopping arcades, escalators and very broad runways. 2 On arrival at Nagoya, as I had arrived a couple of hours earlier, I did not expect anybody from UNCRD to meet me till the flight from Hanneda. Hence I rang up UNCRD and again a taped message gave me the number of the administrative officer, Mr. Kawashima. I was indeed impressed by this system of taped messages during holidays or out of office hours. This made things indescribably convenient for the visitor. Mr. Kawashima informed that they had no information about the exact flight of my arrival as they did not receive the cable I had asked UNDP Dacca to send them. However, in anticipation of my arrival, a room had been booked for me at the new plaza hotel and that I could easily get there by taxi. I accordingly hired a taxi and was in the hotel in less than half an hour. For a 15-km drive the taxi fare was $9. However, at the hotel the receptionist tried to make me understand that my room was booked in the other hotel (owned by the same management) called Nagoya plaza. Mr. Ashraf of the Pakistan planning commission, who had been to Nagoya recently, had informed me that new plaza was better of the two hotels, I therefore, insisted on staying there. When the receptionist did not understand my objective, I asked him to ring up Mr. Kawashima whose number I already had. Mr. Kawashima informed me that the room was booked at Nagoya plaza because the room there was cheaper by 1,000 yen. Anyway I told him that I would prefer to stay at new plaza and since I was going to stay for six months, the management should give me some additional concession to what they were already giving to UNCRD fellows. This little talk resulted in a further concession of 400 yens. I found the hotel room a little congested but it had almost all the facilities - a comfortable double-bed, a colour TV with six channels, a radio with six choices of music, a telephone, an alarm clock, electrically operated for waking you up at the appointed time, a drawer-table with chair, a settee for two, a glass top table, a small wardrobe and above all a very neat and sparkling attached bathroom with fresh supply of linen every morning. Besides, an electric kettle with a cup and daily supply of tea- bag to make morning team was also provided. For breakfast and dinner, there were four snack bars in the premises and a slot-machine for getting cigarettes and cold drinks. As the snack bars were closed because of Sunday, I was directed by the receptionist to go to a Chinese restaurant close to Nagoya plaza hotel. Anyway, I happened to go in the opposite direction and on failing to find the restaurant, I entered the first restaurant I saw to enquire about Nagoya plaza hotel. Since they appeared equally ignorant of the place, I decided to have dinner in that very restaurant which was divided up in two portions - snack bar and dining area. There were two other girls having dinner in that area. After I had started my dinner, I noticed that one of the girls was rather too friendly with the butler, who after the girl had whispered something to him 3 brought the cigarette lighter with the restaurant crest on it and presented it to me with the compliments of the management. After I had nearly finished the dinner, the same butler came to me and said that "the ladies want you to join them". Immediately the remarks of my friend's wife at Islamabad "Shabbu! Be careful of the Japanese women; they are very sweet and fast" flashed in my mind.
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